Bats are the major reservoir of coronaviruses worldwide
Monday, June 12, 2017 - 10:02
in Health & Medicine
Results of a five-year study in 20 countries on three continents have found that bats harbor a large diversity of coronaviruses (CoV), the family of viruses that cause severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS). PREDICT is a globally coordinated effort to detect and discover viruses of pandemic potential and reduce risk for future epidemics.